The danish 727-project

[lasseh]

Here's a miner update from Denmark.

I've now managed to desemble the autopilot, wire the switches together, install an electrical circuit and esemble it all together again. It only took me three whole days!

A few pics and a short video demonstration:

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My roommate working with the paddles.

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Simon again. We took some micro-switches from my CH yoke and installed in the pitch-wheel.

And the final work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1FYl...FdQd81Io5mbxzk

[claushansen]

Hi Lasse

Great to see how you progress. And a lot of work with the solder ion, I have also spent many hours with this tool

I have use Foamalux to my MIP. You can get it in Bauhaus 30 EUR pr. plate. It's very easy to cut in, and with a spray gun you can get
a good result.

Continue to post

Regards
Claus

[lasseh]

Thanks for the suggestion, Claus. I went straight to "Bauhaus" and bought a plate of foamalux. I'm pretty happy with the result so far. The material is very easy to cut in indeed!

Here's a little shot on the result so far:
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For the bezels I've used a 2" water pipe. Actually it's a tiny little bit smaller than 2", so it fits very accurate into the holes that I've cut using a 2" hole saw. I've made each bezel 8 millimeter deep. The foamalux is 5 millimeter, so when fitting the bezels into the wholes it extends 3 millimeter out of the panel surface.
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The hole for the landing gear lever was cut using a hobby-knife. Again this material is very easy to work with using a hobby knife, and still it remains strong/solid.
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Thanks to "AVIATor-Olav" for a nice set of drawings/dimensions! I've found them very usefull!

Next thing to do is to cut the rest of the bezels, polish the panels/bezels and then give it some RAL7011!

Have a good day,
Lasse

[claushansen]

He He, good to see that you can use it.

Looking forward to see the final result

Claus

[AVIATor-Olav]

Glad to see you could put the drawings to use! Looking good!

[roppeca]

Really nice work...that dream will be a great set up...go ahead !

[lasseh]

Thanks for the kind words!

Allthough it has been a while since my last post, I'm still working on the project. I'm waiting for some new "stuffs" to arrive so I can move on with project; In the meantime I've played around with the panels, and here's a very (VERY) early "demo" of the center MIP:

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Lasse

[claushansen]

Wow, fantastic.

Great to see your progress

Claus

[roppeca]

That center mip facinates me 'cause is plenty of flight instruments ! What program do you use for to show the panels ?...thanks in advance !

[lasseh]

Thanks Claus!

Roppeca: At the picture above, it's only a printet piece of paper, illustrating the gauges. But I am using a program called "FS Panel Studio" to move, add and edit the gauges. The gauges its self are from the dreamfleet 727, and some from the Richard Probst's freeware 727 panel.

Lasse